Does anyone know if you have to have a dell specific dvd burner in a dell pc or will a aftermarket one fit ok. (I know that some dells reuire only dell components) Thanks
just remember to put jumper in same position as old drive as dell's are usually set to cable select not master or slave.
I do not know how old the machine is I am afraid. A sata burner is a type if I remember correctly. What would be considered a 'new' machine?
I do not know at this moment I am afraid, I do know its only about 1yr old. I will not see the guy until Monday night.
Probably SATA but you can look in the case to be sure. SATA will use this cable. IDE will use a ribbon cable.
ide cable is about 2" wide whereas sata is 3/8" wide. sata is supposedly hot plug & play which means the computer is on when you plug the sata drive in tho i haven't tried that yet. ide has to have the computer off before being plugged in.
Ok.............here is the spec on the pc concerned. Its a dell Dimension 3000 Series, Intel Pentium 4 2.8ghz with 1mb cache. It has a 80gb 7200rpm Ultra ATA Hard Drive, Windows XP home, media Player 10 & 48x Max cd-rw drive. Hope this helps!
you are using ide according to these links. system specs http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim3000/en/SM/specs.htm#wp1075776 board layout http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim3000/en/SM/techov.htm#wp1061217
yes as board does not have sata connectors on it, just ide. get any ide dvd burner you want as it will fit in the computer.
